Christopher Hitchens Quotes
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
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Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.
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I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
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When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
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You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.
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When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
